CVE-2000-0566: Caldera Openlinux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

makewhatis in Linux man package allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Caldera Openlinux: version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 5.2 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only

Published 2000-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.